Exploration

The new surveys – DB4A and DB4A West – enhance the company’s ongoing Delaware Basin Regional Imaging Project.

A team of scientists from Heriott-Watt University plan to 3D print their own porous rocks with incorporated micro sensors.

The NPD reveals the findings from the seven shallow wells drilled it drilled in the northeastern Barents Sea in autumn 2015.

The programme will see TGS expanding its multi-client library offshore Eastern Canada.

Richmond Energy Partners' ‘State of Exploration’ sheds light on the decline in global exploration drilling.

DNO ASA has reported that the Hayah-1 exploration well in Oman's onshore Block 36 failed to encounter hydrocarbons.

In the 23rd licensing round, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered DEA Norge two new licences in the Barents Sea.

BP has announced that its subsidiary, Castrol Ltd, has sold part of the shareholding it holds in Castrol India.

West Virginia Electric has welcomed Jerry Karr as Executive Vice President to the company.

The well, located south of the Brage oilfield, will target the Jurassic aged sandstones in the Early Jurassic Statfjord Formation.

Real Energy Corp. Ltd has commenced the five-stage fracture stimulation programme of Tamarama–1 well located in the Windorah Gas Project in ATP 927P.

The acquisition brings the first Weald Basin licence interest to Union Jack's expanding UK onshore portfolio.

Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 248, has announced the completion of the drilling of wildcat wells 35/8-6 S and 35/8-6 A.

All the licences are located in the southern Barents Sea with three of the licences being operated by Lundin Norway.

According to APPEA, there is an urgent need to address the decline in Queensland exploration experienced over recent years.